The_Lansing_Magnate
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@hood: GM has cut its Greater Lansing labor force in half this century. The only big-time supplier here is Demmer, with under 1,000 employees. There are quite a few smaller suppliers, too, but how many employees are we talking about total? Another t…
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I think GM isn't as big of a deal as it used to be in Lansing. I think at this point it's larger in people's heads than in reality. Don't get me wrong. GM is still one of the top employers in the region, and if the company up and left it would le…
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@hood: I pretty much agree with you. When I was looking up the GDP of Lansing, I was impressed to see how well Lansing weathered the last recession. To have an economy diversified enough to pull that off in the Rust Belt is huge. Mid-sized cities wi…
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@gbdlansing: I feel like in Ann Arbor, developments are always adding to downtown. In Lansing and East Lansing, it always feels like developments are replacing something. It's a small difference in mindset that makes a big difference in results.
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I'm not trying to correct you, but rather flesh out the facts. Which may be annoying, so I apologize. Anyway, Ann Arbor was made the county seat of Washtenaw in in 1827, and the home of U of M in 1837. Lansing was the made the state capital in 1847,…
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Here are some interesting stats, gbdinlansing: Greater Lansing has a higher GDP than metro Ann Arbor and has over 100,000 more people. Of course Ann Arbor is more economically integrated into the much larger Detroit area (it's part of the Detroit co…
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To veer discussion into a different discussion, I'm curious to hear where people think Greater Lansing will be in ten years. I've only lived here a little over a year, so I don't have the same perspective many of you here likely do. I feel silly …
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The bank building on Grand River had a great facade hidden under that urban renewal nightmare - much of which I suspect could've been restored - and I think the building with the old Thai Hut was such a nice, gritty classic urban building. The build…
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As a Lansing citizen I never find a reason to go to city hall. To me it's wasting valuable real estate. As long as the building is still there I'm happy. The plaza always struck me as one of those typical '60s/'70s plazas that nobody ever uses and a…
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@MichMatters: I'd hope that they were aiming higher than a Radisson-level hotel. Not that Radisson is a bad company, but it's not very sexy. You're right that the corner of Walnut and Allegan wouldn't be terrible, but you can't deny that it's inferi…
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@hood: I believe the thinking is that you could attract a higher quality hotel with the current city hall location than you could with the empty lots in downtown. Let's face it, having a hotel facing the Capitol and just a block away from Washington…
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I like it! Mid-century modern hotels have made a big comeback nationally. It's trendy again. It'd be cool if they played up that theme a bit in the new hotel. Not saying that there'd be a market for redeveloping the entire hotel as a retro property,…
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I'm glad to see Charlotte getting an economic infusion like that. It's such classic American town and has been getting more vibrant lately. I enjoy the contrast towns like that provide to Lansing's more city-like environment.
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I like this project. That's the kind of location I'd like to see built up in East Lansing. I do wonder how the developer is managing to do this without TIFs while other developers in EL seemingly found that impossible. Do they have better access to …
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I will say that Cedar and Larch do seem to carry a good amount of traffic during the day. It'd be interesting to see projections on where that traffic would go if the city made those two-way streets. Grand Avenue is another interesting road to th…
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I hate, hate, hate Cedar and Larch as a pedestrian. Not only do people drive fast, but they don't look for pedestrians when they turn. It's very unpleasant. It could be a coincidence, but not many businesses do well between those two roads. On both …
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Random question... has there ever been any talk of converting that disused rail line between Turner and Center in Old Town into a bicycle trail, ultimately hooking it up with the River Tail? Though it wouldn't add that much to the trail system in a …
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A lot of downtowns in large and mid-sized cities tend to be boring. That's because there's usually not a lot of residential properties in the area, and tons of office buildings that demand a lot of parking. That creates a few problems. Without a …
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gbdinlansing: There is a North Town. Don't think it's that popular of a neighborhood name, though. Of course you could always use North Town instead of North Side, or make North Town part of North Side. I just think the East Side nickname works so w…
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I think "South Side" could be a good name. People might associate that with South Lansing at first, which is more like the Far South Side, but I think that'd sort out of over time. The businesses near Cedar just south of the river made up South Lans…